The 287th day of the year, the 288th in a leap year

Born on 14 October

Every 14 October birthday from 1920 to 2026 was Libra, in every time zone.

Star sign
LibraAir, cardinal, ruled by Venus.
Birthstone
Opal, TourmalineThe same as on the 1912 list.
Birth flower
Marigold, CosmosUsually taken today to mean warmth and order.
Most common weekdays
Friday and Wednesday16 times each between 1920 and 2026.
Where the sun stands on 14 October. The marked arc is every position it has held on 14 October, midnight to midnight UTC, in any year since 1920.

Your year

Without JavaScript, the pages for each birth year give the generation and Chinese animal for a birth on 14 October in any year.

Which weekday 14 October falls on

Across the 107 years from 1920 to 2026, 14 October falls on every day of the week: Friday 16, Wednesday 16, Thursday 15, Saturday 15, Sunday 15, Tuesday 15, Monday 15.

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How common a birthday 14 October is

In England and Wales, from 1995 to 2014, an average of 1,831 babies were born on 14 October in each year of the twenty, making it the 123rd most common of the 366 dates, where 26 September came first with 1,974 and 26 December last with 1,359.

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Born on 14 October

18 people born on 14 October, from English Wikipedia's list of births on this day, chosen and ordered by how many Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects have a page about them.
NameYearsKnown for
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969president of the United States from 1953 to 1961
Hannah Arendt1906–1975German-American political theorist and philosopher
Mohammad Khatami1943–President of Iran from 1997 to 2005
Lillian Gish1893–1993American actress
Roger Moore1927–2017English actor
Mobutu Sese Seko1930–1997Congolese politician and military officer, the first and only president of Zaire from 1971 to 1997
James II of England1633–1701King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1685 to 1688; born 14 October in the Julian calendar, which is 24 October in the Gregorian
Charlie Kirk1993–2025American political activist
Usher1978–American R&B singer
Ferdinand VII1784–1833King of Spain in 1808 and from 1813 to 1833
Éamon de Valera1882–1975Irish statesman
Katherine Mansfield1888–1923New Zealand author
William Penn1644–1718English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania; born 14 October in the Julian calendar, which is 24 October in the Gregorian
Raymond Davis Jr.1914–2006American scientist
Farah Pahlavi1938–queen/empress consort of Iran from 1959 to 1979
E. E. Cummings1894–1962American author
Lê Đức Thọ1911–1990Vietnamese diplomat
George Floyd1973–2020African American man murdered by a police officer in Minneapolis

Died on 14 October

12 people who died on 14 October, chosen and ordered the same way from Wikipedia's list of deaths on this day.
NameYearsKnown for
Bing Crosby1903–1977American singer and actor
Erwin Rommel1891–1944German field marshal
Julius Nyerere1922–1999President of Tanzania from 1964 to 1985
Leonard Bernstein1918–1990American conductor and composer
Benoit Mandelbrot1924–2010Polish-born, French and American mathematician
Errol Flynn1909–1959Australian actor
Martin Ryle1918–1984English radio astronomer
Harold Godwinson1022–1066Anglo-Saxon King of England in 1066
Robbie Coltrane1950–2022Scottish actor
Mathieu Kérékou1933–2015President of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and from 1996 to 2006
Garcilaso de la Vega1503–1536Spanish poet
Nizam al-Mulk1018–1092Persian Seljuk scholar, politician, vizier and court official

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